AIMPACT update: On May 7 (UTC+8), Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudflare, stated at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami that Cloudflare’s network currently generates approximately one billion HTTP 402 responses per day—not one billion actual payments—but rather, websites signaling to AI bots, “Pay to access,” confirming the scale of native payment demand from AI agents. Additionally, Cloudflare, in collaboration with Visa and Experian, launched the “Agent Trust” framework, which links AI agent behavior to verified real users through a “user-agent binding” mechanism and issues real-time trust tokens for merchants to validate the legitimacy of agent transactions. She also noted that over 50% of current internet traffic is non-human, with AI companies scraping and returning content at ratios of tens of thousands to one; if a viable content monetization model is established, it could usher in a “golden age of content.” (Source: Foresight News)
Cloudflare CSO: x402 Responses Reach One Billion Daily, Launches Agent Verification Framework with Visa
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At Consensus 2026, Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen revealed that the network now processes one billion HTTP 402 responses daily, targeting AI bot traffic. The company has launched the Agent Trust framework in partnership with Visa and Experian to verify AI agents and enable real-time trust tokens for merchants. Over 50% of internet traffic is now non-human, with AI scraping content at a high volume. This development aligns with the growing intersection of AI and crypto, as network upgrades aim to support agent-native payments and a new content monetization model.
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